‘Like Cowboys’: Mississippi Capitol Police Indicted for Manslaughter for Shooting Unarmed Black Man In the Head During Traffic Stop
A grand jury indicted two Mississippi Capitol Police officers for manslaughter in the still-murky shooting death of a Black motorist in 2022. Officers Steven Randolph Frederick Jr. and Michael Rhinewalt acted “willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously, without malice, without authority of law and not in necessary self-defense,” when they shot 25-year-old Jaylen Lewis during a traffic…
